Human Resources Manager

start hr; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

start hr in Barcelona is seeking a People & Culture Manager to lead the full people function across the group's sites, combining on-the-ground presence with a strategic approach to engagement, recruitment, training and culture.

You will own the employee lifecycle, report to leadership, and work with site managers to design processes and people strategy for the medium to long term. The role is hands-on, proactive and multi-site focused.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in Human Resources, ideally across multiple sites with frontline/operational teams.
• Hands-on operator with ownership mindset and ability to drive end-to-end people initiatives.
• Fluent Spanish and English; Catalan a plus. Willingness to travel between centres.

Responsabilidades

• Lead full employee lifecycle across the group's locations including attraction, onboarding, development, retention and offboarding.
• Own workplace climate and employee experience with regular site presence and reporting.
• Oversee recruitment and talent attraction, screen CVs, coordinate interviews and candidate experience.
• Coordinate onboarding, development and offboarding processes with structured follow-ups.
• Design and deliver monthly training for site managers on people management and leadership.
• Handle HR administration including payroll liaison and contractual changes.
• Own internal communication channels and engagement surveys.

Conocimientos

Multi-site HR

Proactive hands-on

People management

Talent pipeline

Descripción del empleo

Our client is a dynamic & fast-growing company operating several customer-facing sites in the Barcelona area.

We're looking for a People & Culture Manager to lead the full people function across the organisation, combining day-to-day presence on the ground with a strategic approach to engagement, recruitment, training, and culture.

Your mission

As People & Culture Manager, you'll own the full employee lifecycle across the group's locations: from attracting and selecting talent, through onboarding, development and retention, to offboarding when needed. You'll report directly to leadership and work closely with site managers.

This is a role with direct, hands-on impact with regular presence across the different sites, combining daily execution with the design of processes and people strategy for the medium/long term.

Your key responsibilities

Workplace climate & employee experience

• Regular, rotating presence across sites to assess workplace climate, customer-facing standards, and health & safety compliance.
• Ongoing reporting on internal climate, tracking key indicators over time.
• Being a visible, approachable presence on-site, someone employees feel comfortable approaching directly, not just during scheduled check-ins.
• Regular 1:1 listening sessions with employees, with full staff coverage over the course of the year.

Recruitment & talent attraction

• Defining candidate profiles and building relationships with training institutes, job fairs, and other sourcing channels to maintain an active talent pipeline.
• Screening CVs and conducting first-round HR interviews
• Coordinating in-person interviews and managing candidate experience

Onboarding, development & offboarding

• Managing the new-hire welcome process (induction materials, initial training, introduction to internal policies).
• Structured follow-up at 30, 60 and 90 days.
• Conducting exit interviews and analysing turnover causes.

Coordination & training of Leadership/Operations

• Designing and delivering monthly training for site managers on people management: leadership, conflict resolution, feedback, interviewing and selection technique.
• Regular check-in with the leaders to review issues and people priorities.

HR administration

• Liaising with the gestoria on payroll management and contractual changes
• Coordinating with the occupational health provider: medical check-ups, workstation risk assessments, and fitness-for-work follow-up.
• Handling any administrative matters: sick leaves, Paid Time Off, tracking work-related accidents.
• Responding to employee queries on payroll, contracts, and leave.

Internal communication

• Owning People-related communication channels (digital, on-site noticeboards, town-halls, All-Hands short team briefings).
• Preparing and following up on engagement surveys.

Your profile

• From 5+ years of experience in Human Resources, ideally gained across multiple sites with frontline/operational teams in context like retail chains, hospitality, restaurant groups, or leisure/education.
• A genuinely proactive, hands-on operator
• A real taste for ownership and proactivity. Comfortable taking a topic and running with it end-to-end.
• A real love for being on the ground, not doing HR from behind a desk.
• Solid listening, mediation, and people-development skills.
• Ability to coach and support managers
• Experience or strong interest in active recruitment and building talent pipelines.
• Fluent Spanish with a high level of English. Catalan is a big plus.
• Comfortable travelling between several centres day to day (all reachable by public transport)

What we offer

• The project: well known & recognized brand, growing fast, with a very strong people-first culture and a clear social mission
• Growth path: as the group opens new locations, this role is set up to grow into managing the People & Culture function across the wider structure.